Heidi Guarino

About Heidi Guarino

Experienced, equity-driven education leader, policymaker and senior level strategy consultant with more than 25 years of executive experience in guiding diverse teams through complex policy and systems improvements, motivating stakeholders to drive change, and engaging with key players to ensure actions take hold, grow, and succeed from inspiration to implementation.

Experience

1. Founder and Principal

   Edlab Strategies

   Jun 2021 — Present · US

   I work with clients to help them dream and achieve a bold, forward-looking vision for the new reality in public education. As an independent consultant I tell the stories of what works, ask the right questions to understand what doesn\'t, and push for policies, investments and action to establish the meaningful, lasting change in education that our students deserve. There is an endless amount of important, urgent work to do in education right now: targeted storytelling, research-based policy and strategy development, authentic and meaningful stakeholder engagement, skilled project management, and innovative thinking, partnerships, and collaboration.

Education

• Emerson College

  BFA, Professional writing

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Policy Analysis
• Speech Writing
• Politics
• Program Development
• Nonprofits
• Newsletters
• Social Media
• Television
• Advertising
• Organizational Leadership
• Magazines
• Copywriting
• Research
• Critical Thinking
• Copy Editing
• Writing
• Innovation Development
• Print
• Logical Thinker
• Strategic Thinking
• Publications
• Newspapers
• Analytic Thinking
• Marketing Communications
• Higher Education
• Community Outreach
• Community Development
• Publishing
• Radio
• Editorial
• Corporate Communications
• Social Networking
• Multimedia
• Crisis Communications
• Public Speaking
• Storytelling
• Blogging
• Public Policy
• Public Relations
• Media Relations